Midori (美登里) is a sexologist, educator, author, artist, speaker, and coach.[1][2] Midori wrote the first English language book with instruction on Japanese rope bondage[3] and continues to write on alternative sexual practices, including BDSM and sexual fetishism, bondage, erotic fiction, and more.[2][4] She teaches classes, presents at conferences, coaches individuals and professionals, and facilitates in-depth weekend intensives. She is based in San Francisco, California.[5][6]
Early in her career she also worked as a condom manufacturer's sales representative.[7] She spent a few years as a sex educator with San Francisco Sex Information.[7][9] After serving in the military, she began her art career performing in queer nightclubs, collaborating with other "weirdo" transgressive and experimental artists.[8]
Midori teaches internationally on BDSM, alternative sexuality, feminine dominance, Shibari / Japanese bondage, and kink.[10][11][12][13] She has spoken at conferences, universities, and organizations promoting sexual health, wellness, and education.[14]
In 2021, she worked with the Sexual Health Alliance to create the year-long Kink Informed Certification (KIC) Program which offers training to therapists, educators, coaches, or consultants who works with individuals engaging in kink, BDSM, and alternative sexuality.[15]
She is known for her in-depth weekend intensives, ForteFemme: Women's Dominance Intensive and Rope Dojo: Rope Bondage Weekend Intensive where she uses her "head-heart-hands" method to create a space where people are allowed individual self-exploration.[16] Her work focuses on helping people to create authentic and intimate relationships while emphasizing self-actualization, shame reduction, acceptance, and justice.
Art
Midori is a multidisciplinary, social practice artist.[17] She creates installations, performances, group exhibitions & social practice projects that examine human narratives, cultural experiences of queerness and Asian American Pacific Islander (AAPI) heritage, and ephemeral nature of memory and place.[18] She has presented lectures at several universities and is a resident artist at the San Francisco Battery.[19]
She offers creative coaching and consulting through the Intersection for the Arts, a Bay Area arts nonprofit that's dedicated to helping artists grow.[20]
An Intersectional Approach to Sex Therapy: Centering the Lives of Indigenous, Racialized, and People of Color (contributing author), Routledge Press, 2022 [31]
